CAIRO FREE JAZZ ENSEMBLE "HELIOPOLIS" (1970)/ Free Jazz

Salah Ahmed Ragab, drums, conga, tambourine
Hartmut Geerken, piano, xylomarimba, gong, cymbals, tubular chimes, fire-brigade bell, camel bells, horse bells, temple blocks, bendire, conga, maraca, thunder sheet, “toy car producing the sound of a sirene”
Farouk Abdel Rahman, alto sax, Ramadan drum, cymbals, mokkatam pod rattles
Fathi Abdel Salam, tenor sax, conga, cymbals, mokkatam pod rattles
Abdel Hakim Zamel, baritone sax, two Ramadan drums, cymbals, mokkatam pod rattles
Mahmoud Ayoub, trombone, conga, cymbals, mokkatam pod rattles
Saddeek Bassouni, trombone, zebra drum, small gong, horse bells
Mohammed Abdel Rahman, tuba, african tin drum, african wooden drum, tambourines
Ibrahim Wagdi, trumpet, hand drum, darabukka, horse bells
Khalifa Ismail, trumpet, hand drum, bendire, small bell
Moohi El-Din Osman, bass, strings and wood
Abdel Ghani Metawally, bagpipes
Rofaeel Francis, bagpipes
Ahmed Kollaly, bagpipes


A1. Liberty For Iratilim 20:18
B1. Turnus 12:28
B3. Diagnosis For Percussion 07:02

All compositions by Hartmut Geerken.


Recorded on March 31 & April 01, 1970 at Deutsches Kulturinstitut, Cairo, Egypt.
Engineer: Joseph Hermeling.

Produced by the Deutsches Kulturinstitut, Goethe Institut, Cairo (Saut-el-Kahira).

GOETHE 7037080

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